Famous names...a birthday poker challenge

If you go on Wikipedia and type in your birthdate, you’ll get a long list of famous people with whom you share your special day. (Just day and month only, not year.)

I’ll start and show my 3 first…post yours and we’ll play a friendly game to see who has the best hand. :slight_smile:

  1. Carlos Santana
  2. Sir Edmund Hillary
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. ?
  5. ?

Um, which would you consider more impressive–a sportsman or celebrity, a Nobel Prize winner, or an obscure Byzantine emperor?

Okay, okay–I’ll play:

  1. Hellen Keller, a well-known socialist and Swedenborgian writer
  2. James P. Hogan, science-fiction author
  3. The baby from “Rosemary’s Baby” (in the film)

Princess Diana
Frank Spencer (The character, not the actor)
Canada
Debbie Harry
Dan Ackroyd

1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1753 - Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)

Hmm…artists, royalty, and dirty rotten scounderels (polititions).

John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze

A straight flush

Condorcet
William Carlos Williams
Hank Williams
George Blanda
Ken Kesey

[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze

A straight flush[/quote]

It looks like Dr. McCoy has taken the lead.

Here’s my 4th:

  1. Carlos Santana
  2. Sir Edmund Hillary
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Gisele Bundchen
  5. ?

[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze

A straight flush[/quote]

Well my final lineup is:

Carlos Santana
Sir Edmund Hillary
Gregor Mendel
Gisele Bundchen
Alexander the Great

I totally would have beaten Dr. McCoy if Gregor Mendel wasn’t such a tool.

I had the suicide jack.

I share my birthday with five monarchs who died on the toilet.

A royal flush.